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vlnrph
vlnrph Member Posts: 1,632
edited June 2014 in Lymphedema

Just bumped the thread relating to the UCSF genetic study. I've always thought it interesting when I run across research (or our friend Nitocris) from Finland since I am half Finnish. Like many Wisconsin residents, the rest of me is German.

So, if we inherit a tendency to LE, I wonder what places our ancestors originally called home!

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  • carol57
    carol57 Member Posts: 3,567
    edited April 2013

    Gosh, I'm a real mixture, with German and Swedish probably leading the bloodline. My mom is on the German side, but she has never developed LE after losing virtually all her axillary nodes to BC surgery in 1968. That argues for no genetic predisposition...or is the gene problem a recessive one, and I've no clue if my maternal grandmother had LE after her radical surgery in the early 60s.  Interesting to muse on this.

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  • toomuch
    toomuch Member Posts: 901
    edited April 2013

    My family roots are in Russia, Hungary and Romnia. My Hungarian GM had a radical MX in the 70's and she never developed LE. I'm pretty sure that doesn't rule out a genetic predisposition. I'm encouraged that  a LE gene study was done!

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  • Kicks
    Kicks Member Posts: 4,131
    edited April 2013

    On Daddy's side of the family almost complete German (a Dane and a French thrown in)  that all came to the States before the Revolutionary War.  Mom's family is a bit more varied but mostly Irish, Scotch with a bit of English and French thrown in. Some were at the original settlement at Pensacola and the most recent to come here, came in 1852.

    As I am the first on either side in at least 4 generation to have a C DX I have no known history.  I do deal with LE.  I wonder (at times), if something that happened when second son was born may not have had a role ultimately in LE.  I had a C-section and the IV was pulled out to soon and another line re-established.  Well, it was not right and infused a lot of fluid in to surrounding tissue and kept me in the hospital for almost a week after I should have gone home (at a USN hospital and at that time had to stay 5 days at least for a C-section).  The worst of that swelling was in elbow area and the worst of my LE is in elbow area - so perhaps.

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  • NickyJ
    NickyJ Member Posts: 722
    edited April 2013

    I'm Irish on both sides as far back as we know and the first person dx'd with a C in known family history, so as for genes I really don't know

    Nicky

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  • Denise-G
    Denise-G Member Posts: 1,777
    edited April 2013

    paternal side - American Indian - Cherokee

    maternal side - French German

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  • carol57
    carol57 Member Posts: 3,567
    edited April 2013

    Oh gosh, there appears to be no rhyme or reason on LE ethnicity here!

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